Boone man receives 22-year sentence for sexual abuse

By Tribune Staff

Thursday

Mar 7, 2019 at 12:01 AM

A Boone man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl for more than a year.

Roger Christopher McGhee, 32, was sentenced Monday in Story County District Court in Nevada. Following a three-day trial last month, he was found guilty Jan. 18 of third-degree sexual abuse, lascivious acts with a child, and assault to commit sexual abuse.

According to court documents, Ames police officers first received a report in February 2018 from a girl who alleged McGhee had been sexually abusing her for over a year.

After McGhee was arrested, Ames police Cmdr. Geoff Huff said the victim gave a time range of the abuse between July 2016 through February 2018, but couldn’t say how frequent the alleged abuse occurred during that time-frame.

Police only arrested McGhee on July 31, 2018, because investigators had to take extra precautions in interviewing the victim and gathering evidence due to the nature of the alleged crime and the victim’s juvenile status, Huff said.